This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. WCCF TECH INC has a disclosure and ethics policy. After NASA solicited and then selected a new round of proposals for its Mars sample return program, a Freedom of Information request from an X user in Australia shared details … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked trusted source proofread OK! This image shows the rock core of “Berea” in the drill of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Each core the rover takes is about the size of a piece of classroom chalk: 0.5 inches (13 millimeters) in diameter and 2.4 inches (60 millimeters) … Read more
The sun fired a volley of radiation bursts in May. When they collided with Earth’s magnetic bubble, the world was treated to iridescent displays of the Northern and Southern Lights. But our planet wasn’t the only one in the sun’s line of fire. A few days after Earth’s light show, a new series of bursts … Read more
NASA’s Perseverance Rover has left Mount Washburn behind and arrived at its next destination, Bright Angel. An unusual type of rock was found there that scientists call ‘popcorn rock’. The strange rock is evidence that water was once present in the Jezero crater. Perseverance’s mission is focused on life on ancient Mars. In addition to … Read more
7 photos Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU It’s not every day that the American space agency NASA says something shocking. The organization is a respectable organization by profession and generally avoids sensational titles. But not this week, when it was announced plain and simple that “Perseverance finds popcorn on planet Mars.” Perseverance, formerly known as Mars 2020, is … Read more
Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and has been more robotically explored than any other planet outside Earth since the 1960s. Imaging with Mariner 9 in 1971 revealed the first direct evidence of water on the Red Planet. But it was only thanks to the recent ESA ExoMars and Mars Express … Read more
THE SAME sunspot that produced Earth’s most spectacular display of solar energy in decades has created another record-breaking storm on Mars. A fascinating video taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft shows an X12 solar flare – the strongest type – kicking up debris across the Red Planet’s arid landscape on May 20. Video taken by … Read more
While exploring a crater on Mars that could give scientists insight into life that may once have existed there, NASA said its Perseverance rover made an unprecedented discovery. The rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2021 specifically to explore the ancient Jezero crater, found a mysterious light-colored boulder earlier this month that was … Read more
Astronauts on a future mission to Mars may not make it all the way to the Red Planet and back without experiencing kidney failure, new research shows. Although not usually considered one of the biggest dangers of space travel, traveling as far as Mars could change the structure and function of astronauts’ kidneys, leading to … Read more
Olympus Mons seen here in an image from the Trace Gas Orbiter with frost on top. PC ESA DLR FU Berlin University of Berlin. Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website covering nature, politics, science, health and travel. Even more evidence of liquid water on Mars has been discovered by a European … Read more